Policy

A workshop titled ‘National Policy workshop on the Development of the Public Libraries’ was organized by the British Council’s Libraries Unlimited Programme and the Department of Public Libraries on 28 April 2018, at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, Dhaka. The...

The government should carry on post-budget assessment on some new policies made in the budget every year to reduce revenue deficit for sustainable revenue collection.  Because, if policy changes do not work effectively, the revenue target of the government is hampered. Foreign...

Bangladesh is going to be a middle-income country soon, but gender inequality persists in societies even in policies, which hinders the progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 according to speakers in a policy...

Industries Minister Advocate Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun MP said the present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken plan to build industries in every villages of the country for improving life style of the...

Establishing inclusive governance in Bangladesh is a shared agenda of the government, civil society organizations and the citizens, maintained discussants of a day-long forum held Thursday in the capital. The “Inclusive Governance and Social Accountability (IGSA)...

The Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved the membership of Niue as the bank’s 68th overall member and 49th from the Asia and Pacific region. “We welcome Niue as ADB’s newest...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Vanuatu signed agreements for a grant and a loan to fund the introduction of new vaccines in Vanuatu through the ADB-supported System Strengthening for Effective Coverage of...

Bangladesh has become a full-fledged member of the prestigious international forum “WorldSkills” which works on the theme of Skills Development for the Youth. Bangladesh became the 79th member of the forum when the recommendation of its...

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has urged the world leaders to settle all international disputes and fight emerging global challenges like terrorism. “To ensure a peaceful world in future the world leaders must be commited...

Oxfam is providing clean drinking water and tarpaulin shelter sheets to 5,000 survivors as a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale, the second within a week, hit Lombok Island in Indonesia. The National...